Contract Marriage: Boss, Let's divorce
Chapter 408 - 407: I Am Willing to Play Along with You (3)

Chapter 408: Chapter 407: I Am Willing to Play Along with You (3)

Thinking of this, Mrs. Shi couldn’t help but reach for Ling Yunshu’s hand, gently squeezing it before speaking with a sigh, "Child, these three years, you’ve been wronged."

Ling Yunshu shifted her gaze slightly, quickly shaking her head, "Madam, what foolish things are you saying? These three years you’ve supported my studies abroad, never short of food or clothing, I haven’t been wronged at all."

"I’m not talking about that, I mean you and Che’er."

Ling Yunshu opened her mouth wanting to say something, but in the end, she subconsciously glanced at Shi Che, her voice low, "Madam, I’m not wronged, truly."

Mrs. Shi smiled knowingly, lightly patting the back of Ling Yunshu’s hand, raising her eyes to Shi Che, "Che’er, it seems Yun Shu has been concerned about you all these years, don’t you think it’s time to give Yun Shu some explanation?"

Shi Che had been silent from the start, his expression as indifferent and profound as ever, his lips slightly pursed. Hearing Mrs. Shi’s words, he raised his eyelids slightly, casting a lazy glance at her, his voice low and somewhat deep, "What explanation should I give Yun Shu?"

His rhetorical question seemed laced with a tinge of sarcasm.

Mrs. Shi looked puzzled, her eyebrows raising as she looked at Shi Che and then at Ling Yunshu, finally fixing her gaze on Shi Che’s face, "Che’er, didn’t you always like Yun Shu? Now that Yun Shu is back and you and Chuxia are divorcing, don’t you want to marry Yun Shu..."

Mrs. Shi was cut off mid-sentence by Shi Che’s voice, each word uttered distinctly, interrupting her.

He said, "When did I say that I was divorcing Chuxia?"

Just that one sentence, yet it was like a huge stone smashing into the tranquil lake, stirring up thousands of ripples. Mrs. Shi’s eyes widened, her pupils suddenly constricting.

She couldn’t hold back anymore, her hand slamming heavily on the table as she stood up in anger.

"Shi Che, are you saying that you have no intention of divorcing Ling Chuxia?"

So he was telling her not to meddle in his business with Ling Chuxia not because he would handle it himself, but because he never planned to divorce Ling Chuxia?

Shi Che didn’t seem to have any intention of hiding it from her, his dark eyes directly meeting Mrs. Shi’s furious expression, he began slowly, his words unwaveringly firm, "I’m not going to divorce Ling Chuxia."

Indeed, every time Ling Chuxia had asked him to sign the divorce papers, his resolve had waned, and he even lost the courage to persevere.

But when he took that divorce agreement, when he laid it before himself, when he picked up the pen, when he was about to sign his name in the designated area, his hand simply couldn’t go through with it.

He resented Ling Chuxia’s ruthlessness, her heartlessness, her lack of love for him, her cruel decision to terminate their child, her desire to divorce him.

Yet all that resentment couldn’t outweigh the fear of her leaving him.

She said, once they signed and divorced, they would have nothing to do with each other, from then on you’re you, and I’m me.

Through it all, she had never loved him; it was the marriage that had kept her by his side. Even without love, he could still reach out and touch her. But without this marital bond, what excuse could he have to keep her near?

Thinking of her drifting away from him, possibly disappearing from his world altogether, his hand trembled, unable to even hold the pen steady.